Can We Blame Extreme Weather on Climate Change? - Climate Hoax Promoter Sharon Begley - Newsweek

The idea is to calculate how many times an extreme event should have occurred absent human interference, explains climate scientist Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and the probability of the same extreme event in today’s greenhouse-forced atmosphere. Result: putting numbers on extreme weather.

In their biggest success, climate scientists led by Peter Stott of the British Met Office analyzed the 2003 European heat wave, when the mercury rose higher than at any time since the introduction of weather instruments (1851), and probably since at least 1500. After plugging in historical and paleo data, and working out climate patterns in a hypothetical world without a human-caused greenhouse effect, they conclude that our meddling was 75 percent to blame for the heat wave.

» Global Warming Nuisance Lawsuits Are Based on a Fatal Flaw - Big Government

There is more critical question: rather than a tobacco industry-style parallel to confuse the public about the causes of global warming, does it appear such a parallel was fabricated when none existed, which led the public to believe the IPCC has no legitimate opposition?

Again Record Cold | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi

Once again, a new record-low temperature for this winter was recorded Friday evening in Lapland. According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute the thermometer dipped to -34 degrees Celsius at Kevojärvi in the area of Utsjoki in the far north.

New congressman: 'I do know I'm a little nerdy' - WTKR

As late as the final week of August, nobody--not even Griffith's wife--thought he had a chance to unseat 14-term Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher in southwestern Virginia's rural, coal-mining 9th District.
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The campaign's turning point was Boucher's vote for the cap-and-trade energy bill aimed at reducing airborne carbon emissions. As Griffith crisscrossed the mountainous district in a beat-up, green Volkswagen Passat filled with child safety seats and missing its hubcaps, he sensed anger in the coal-mining region over Boucher's vote.